Heroes of Might & Magic 7

[cvv]

It's ugly as fuck. Art-wise the whole Homam series went from funny/cutesy (1,2) to vanilla taste (3), ugly (4), vomit inducing (5) and finally to straight up ridiculous (6,7).

They should've employed whoever was responsible for Disciples 3. They're all unemployed now but it's clear you can overdesign something and still make it look semi-tasteful.

Spoiler

 

[DeepOcean]

Lord Edgy makes me think their art team used google search for "cool fantasy looking undead dude." and chosen the first screen that showed up for inspiration.

 

[J_C]

Lord Edgy, the Codex champion.

How can you put up that armor without cutting yourself a million times? :D You probably die from bloodloss by the time you put it up.

 

[Darth Roxor]

That's why he has all those bandages underneath.

 

[Dickie]

Lord Edgy makes me think their art team used google search for "cool fantasy looking undead dude." and chosen the first screen that showed up for inspiration.

I went ahead and searched for that and I get this result first. I think it would've been better if they had done that Google search.

 

[Archibald]

Searching for warhammer undead art brings closer results.

 

[whatevername]

How can you put up that armor without cutting yourself a million times? :D You probably die from bloodloss by the time you put it up.

He tried that and became undead.

 

[rvm1975]

Orcish city

 

[exe]

HoMM 7: The Overdesigning

 

[octavius]

Lord Edgy, the Codex champion.

How can you put up that armor without cutting yourself a million times? :D You probably die from bloodloss by the time you put it up.

Never heard of squires?

 

[Quatlo]

Lord Edgy, the Codex champion.

How can you put up that armor without cutting yourself a million times? :D You probably die from bloodloss by the time you put it up.

Never heard of squires?

His squire probably looks like this:

Spoiler

 

[spectre]

Is it just me, or does the head look a bit like predator?

 

[mhm32167]

Some previews..
English:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/orcs-and-uprisings-in-might-magic-heroes-vii/1100-6426243/
http://www.pcgamer.com/might-magic-heroes-vii-hands-on-with-a-familiar-feeling-sequel/
http://attackofthefanboy.com/articles/might-magic-heroes-vii-preview/

Other:
http://nl.hardware.info/reviews/5973/might-a-magic-heroes-vii-preview
http://tweakers.net/reviews/3962/might-en-magic-heroes-vii.html
http://www.millenium.org/might-and-...ft-rpg-strategie-limbic-entertainement-124151
http://www.insidegamer.nl/artikel/116318/might-magic-heroes-vii-op-de-weg-terug

Not much new info.. pic of skill wheel though:

Spoiler

Can toggle random skill option as well.

And some stronghold campaign info

 

[hello friend]

No one designs beautiful UI anymore. Everything looks like everything else.

 

[Archibald]

Their story will focus on Imani, a female Orc Chieftain who inevitably leads her people to their promised land

I wonder how big of a deal that flanking thing will be, some previews seam to imply that it really matters.

 

[hoverdog]

Spoiler

holy iphone gui batman

 

[Quatlo]

Why all Homm since 5 have interface ripped off from Etherlords?

 

[Archibald]

I might be mixing things up but Nival, developer of H5, developed Etherlords so it wasn't surprising that there were some similarities. At this point its probably considered "classic HoMM interface" since most of the "journalists" and developers haven't played earlier HoMM games and sure as fuck haven't played Etherlords.

 

[cvv]

Gotta say the art direction seems pretty lamey so far but overland maps design is miles from anything we have seen in the HOMAM franchise or any Homam-like. I like it a lot.

 

[Quatlo]

I have to admit, this is really pretty.


Did they say anything about that Paul's concert in potatoland? I hope I didn't miss it

 

[Cadmus]

this is so disgusting

 

[cvv]

this is so disgusting

Not sure if edgy, nostalgiafag or just going for some KKK.

 

[Cadmus]

this is so disgusting

Not sure if edgy, nostalgiafag or just going for some KKK.

I don't like it. I refuse to cave in and start liking this horrible fucking art design and shit, overblown, out of proportion, covered on all sides with a visible grey and disgusting mist maps that look like Warcraft 3 on steroids and heroin. Fuck this when we finally got a game like Pillars of Eternity. It's not edgy to expect games to look prettier than 10 years ago. I'm not even asking for more polygons on the models or for higher resolutions, it can't be that hard.

 

[mhm32167]

The adventure map looks alright but the art design (heroes, creatures) does suck, overdesigned, etc. Skeletons in this game look about as powerful as tier7 units when you should be able to tell the difference in power from looking at them, like in the earlier homm games. Don't really care about the interface that much, looks exactly like homm5, not as nice as earlier games but I didn't expect this to change really. Lore sucks but can't change that about ashan I guess. My main concerns at this point include area of control and possible absence of random map generator. Disappointed that the previews didn't seem to address the first point at all.

 

[Archibald]

Bros, its okay to hate art direction but like other parts of the game.